Learn in school to quote your teachers correctly so that all your life long you will quote as gossip or reporter you will quote everybody correctly except when from malice or mischief you [illegible] misquote people on purpose. Formula for examination questions: What do you think I (the Teacher) think was the date of the battle of Hastings? of Yorktown

[From The Notebooks of Robert Frost, notebook 4. The entry is undated but seems to have been written at some point after 1939.]